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Wettest season in living memory

Tasmanian poppy growers are facing the wettest conditions in living memory.

Rick Rockliff, a forty year veteran of the Tasmanian poppy industry and field operations manager for poppy processor Tasmanian Alkaloids, says the full Tasmanian crop should be in the ground by this time of year.

But he says less than half of this season's crops has been sown, and much of that has been damaged by rain.